The Cry Baby Killer (Back-to-Back Jack Edition)
by Charles B. Griffith, Jus Addiss, Mel Welles, Roger Corman
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Actor: Carolyn Mitchell, Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Jackie Joseph, Jonathan HazeDirector: Charles B. Griffith, Jus Addiss, Mel Welles, Roger Corman
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
Writer: Roger Corman
Writer: Leo Gordon
Writer: Melvin Levy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 61 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Pictures
Product features:
- Directed by: Jus Addiss
- Written by: Leo Gordon
- Cast: Jack Nicholson ("The Bucket List", "The Departed"), Carolyn Mitchell ("Dragstrip Riot")
- Year: 1958
- Producers: David Kramarsky
Movie Reviews of The Cry Baby Killer (Back-to-Back Jack Edition)
Movie Review: Some Good News, Some Bad News
Summary: 3 Stars
When I preordered the Jack to Jack edition, the box did not proclaim LSOH colorization. Upon receipt I considered sending it back unopened. Actually, I'm glad I didn't. Cry Baby Killer is a reasonable entertainment that has quite devious and anti-establishment observations about most of the cast, who represent various factions of society. Though rather stage bound (only three major sets - bar, storeroom, and outside the bar and storeroom), this is overcome with good camera angles and extraneous business from cops, relatives, onlookers, hot dog vendors, and especially the tv crew. I came away considering it a cheap but effective rip/tribute of Billy Wilder's Ace In the Hole/The Big Carnival. And Jack Nicholson's part as a young, inexperienced and confused youth comes accross as young, inexperienced, and confused. Lots to chew on here, such as who is untimately to blame for the situation. On to LSOH, though I loathe colorization, this particular film, being also very stage bound does get some advantage from the color - Audrey Junior looks much more alien all green with cotton candy interior. Audrey Senior and the hooker are better eye candy as well. Would have been a superior package with the B&W LSOH, but I suspect the change was made to challenge the Legends colorized release product. Overall, I'm happy with it.
Summary of The Cry Baby Killer (Back-to-Back Jack Edition)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 11/21/2006 Run time: 75 minutesMany fans will be taken by surprise to learn that two early Roger Corman films, Cry Baby Killer and Little Shop of Horrors, feature Jack Nicholson in his first roles. Cry Baby Killer is a schlocky West Side Story-ish tale with a jazzy soundtrack, in which Jimmy Wallace tries to steal his girl, Carol, back from gangster Manny Cole. Jimmy's clumsily naïve gunfire complicates his situation, involving innocent bystanders. The film succeeds because of its '50s charm, but mainly because of Nicholson's good acting, which he manages despite a lame script. Little Shop of Horrors is a more entertaining, original story about Mushnick's Florist, a flower shop where employee, Seymour, breeds a blood-sucking carnivorous plant that encourages Seymour's increasing murderous dementia. This hilariously bizarre story clearly inspired early John Waters films with its absurd characters, such as a perverted dentist and young Nicholson, who plays the dentist's masochistic patient who craves to get his teeth drilled sans painkillers. Little Shop of Horrors is colorized on this DVD, lending it added campy charm. This Back-To-Back Jack may brag Cry Baby Killer, though the real attractions are the bonus feature and film introductions by The Man himself, Roger Corman. --Trinie Dalton
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